Thank you for your compliment on my perspective. Funny thing about perspectives, they are constantly in flux, just like the universe. I really wasn't trying to blame anyone in particular for the ant-war movement stalling and then dissolving after the Kent State masacre. I was just reflecting on the past. As far as the future goes, we are all screwed. The political left in this country is largely invisible and will remain so until all of America resembles Newark or Detroit.
We lost the "revolution" at the '68 convention in Chicago. The great Silent Majority put Nixon in during the confusion and four years later McGovern was a lamb for the slaughter. Immigration is quicly diluting white conservatism, but who knows what the masters of war will look like in the future if the thinking doesnt change.
Perhaps, "died" was a strong word when refering to the anti-war movement. Kent State was a turning point in the Romantic Left of the 1960's. Shortly after the masacre, SDS began to splinter and get extreme as did other vangaurd organizations . Anarchists began to rise and the American public got frightened. So much so that they vote in "tricky dicky" and poor extremely qualified, honest McGovern gets the screw as we all did in the end. So the left didn't die it just failed to unify.
@68dharmabum your perspective is very good. I wasn't born then but I cannot place any blame on the Left, there should've been a large space for debate among the Left, there were so many perspectives that deserved to be thoroughly addressed. The public would've benefited to hear all points of view. I blame the corporate interests that conscript the larger voting public with fear-driven politics. These days it's absolutely evident, our apathetic, uneducated public is pushed further right everyday.
@68dharmabum Who says the 60s Left is dead? The establishment can't take away the groundswell of revolutionary thinking, they can't change what people by themselves know to be right.
GREAT!
Many, many THANKS!
solidaritet2010 5 months ago
Thank you for your compliment on my perspective. Funny thing about perspectives, they are constantly in flux, just like the universe. I really wasn't trying to blame anyone in particular for the ant-war movement stalling and then dissolving after the Kent State masacre. I was just reflecting on the past. As far as the future goes, we are all screwed. The political left in this country is largely invisible and will remain so until all of America resembles Newark or Detroit.
68dharmabum 10 months ago
We lost the "revolution" at the '68 convention in Chicago. The great Silent Majority put Nixon in during the confusion and four years later McGovern was a lamb for the slaughter. Immigration is quicly diluting white conservatism, but who knows what the masters of war will look like in the future if the thinking doesnt change.
aragon591 11 months ago
Perhaps, "died" was a strong word when refering to the anti-war movement. Kent State was a turning point in the Romantic Left of the 1960's. Shortly after the masacre, SDS began to splinter and get extreme as did other vangaurd organizations . Anarchists began to rise and the American public got frightened. So much so that they vote in "tricky dicky" and poor extremely qualified, honest McGovern gets the screw as we all did in the end. So the left didn't die it just failed to unify.
68dharmabum 1 year ago
@68dharmabum your perspective is very good. I wasn't born then but I cannot place any blame on the Left, there should've been a large space for debate among the Left, there were so many perspectives that deserved to be thoroughly addressed. The public would've benefited to hear all points of view. I blame the corporate interests that conscript the larger voting public with fear-driven politics. These days it's absolutely evident, our apathetic, uneducated public is pushed further right everyday.
truthslap 10 months ago
More powerful than Dylan or Ochs. What a tribute and rallying song. Too bad the movement died shortly after.
68dharmabum 1 year ago
@68dharmabum Who says the 60s Left is dead? The establishment can't take away the groundswell of revolutionary thinking, they can't change what people by themselves know to be right.
truthslap 1 year ago